Happy New Year, it's time to get our 2006 on. I can't hardly believe it.

Well, lets just say, that this year's new years eve didn't hold a candle to last year's at the Overtime Pub in Brooklyn, (shout out to blerg's NY crew!) but there was something very special about a quiet evening with deliquesce and Brendan. Great times catching up with the Nebraska kids, and sipping Champagne out of real Crystal glasses.

For the past several weeks, I've been feeling like I've been running two steps behind. The trend is still continuing. Today, on January 3, 2006, I will be trying to write Christmas Cards and finish my thank you notes from my dad's funeral in August.

I have been working at Herbergers (department store) since the moment I set foot in Havre, and since yesterday was my last day, I feel my Christmas Vacation has really begun. (two weeks late.)

So now, before I get two more weeks behind, I'm going to do all my silly little 2005 year in review things. I think I did the meme last year, but haven't done some of this other stuff in awhile! Ta da!

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?

Had my work appear on television in a top ten market. 
Bought a computer.
Spoke at a funeral.
Got paid to edit some crap for this random girl. 40 bucks an hour!
Was the victim of a crime (wallet stolen at Nationals game.)
Was a production assistant at the local DC emmys.                                                                     Got a 4.0! (Okay so it was summer and I only took one class!)                                                       Bought Versace sunglasses.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Last year: Skinny up, keep the grades up, watch your spending. I gained weight this year, but I got great grades. 5 A's, 3 B's, and we won't talk about the one F. Spending...probably a little better.

Next year: work on self esteem, seriously lose 30 pounds, figure out identity theft disaster, make plans for first international voyage. (study abroad!) Read more books.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

One of my best friends in junior high had twins. My cousin Allie (5 years younger than me) had a cute baby. And yay, my buddies Ray and Kevin will be welcoming new little ones in 2006!

4. Did anyone close to you die?

My dad died. So did a good friend's mom. We've recently been reunited in grief.

5. What countries did you visit?

I stayed stateside all year. I know sometimes Montana feels like a foreign country sometimes, though.

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?

Skis. A little relationship (nothing too serious, but comfortable and fun.) A scholarship and a kick ass internship.  

7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

Feb- shanola made me her maid of honor.
August 1st- My dad died, and I left Washington, D.C, my home of six years.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Making a very grown up decision to return to Montana and continue my work at UM. And forging a closer relationship with my cousin Linda. Not totally falling apart with grief during my first semester at UM.  

9. What was your biggest failure?

The big fat F I got in Political Theory. 

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

I had the flu for a couple of days last spring. Watched some really fun movies.  

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My computer and my Versace sunglasses. 

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

deliquesce , Evelyn and Jon from TCS, Michele from UM! Danny Schroeder. Shanola!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

A close friend, and dad for leaving. (I know he didn't mean to.) Also Bush, and Hurricane Katrina! 

14. Where did most of your money go?

Containers. Makeup. Clothes.  

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Becoming Shannon's maid of honor (I'm two for two!) Being singled out for the top two senior positions at UM, Evelyn and Jon's visit to Montana, my going away party in DC.  The DC Emmys!

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?

In this Life, by Chantal Kreviazuk; Or Golddigger,  by Kanye West. :(

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?

happier.

b) thinner or fatter?

fatter.

c) richer or poorer?

poorer, but more able to support myself with what I'm making.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?

excersining and keeping in touch. Not procrastinating. Hanging out with Shanola.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?

Playing Spider Solitaire. Playing on the Facebook.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

I had a lame Christmas. It felt like just another day. I cried all the way to my cousin's house, and was anti social all night. Alls I did was watch the 40 year old Virgin with my cousin's son Cody.  

21. Did you fall in love in 2004?

Nope, not even close.  

22. How many one-night stands?

one.  

23. What was your favorite TV program?

Sex and the City.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

Nobody, and as it turns out, I became friends with someone I hated last year.  

25. What was the best book you read?

Little Children by Tom Perrotta.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Sufjan Stevens and the Killers.  

27. What did you want and get?

A new computer. A great new roomate and cheap apartment. Admission back into Journalism school. Love a respect from new professors.

28. What did you want and not get?

Skinnier, the first apartment I wanted, to take a family picture of my whole family in Washington, D.C.  

29. What was your favorite film of this year?

Walk the Line.  

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I turned 26 just eight days after my dad's funeral. I drove to Missoula, and landed an apartment. Then I drove home and had dinner with my mom and bro.  

31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

More satisfaction ...brow chick brow brow! Oh, yeah, that's totally what I mean! Wink, wink!  

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?

Bought a shit ton more capri pants, and wore my jean jacket all the freaking time. Also was seen ridiculously much in Container Store T-shirts.  

33. What kept you sane?

The Family guy, Danny Schroeder, Evelyn from TCS.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

I liked me some Jake Gyllenthal. Got very obsessed over Jamie Cullum.  

35. What political issue stirred you the most?

The Supreme Court nominations, and losing Sandra Day O'Connor. Also Jon Tester for Senate.

36. Who did you miss?

Troy, Shannon, most DC kids, my dad.  

37. Who was the best new person you met?

Denise Dowling (prof.), Kristine from R-TV, and Michele.  

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:

Cherish every day. Make the most of it. Don't give up your dreams.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

Two, actually: Changeless by Carbon Leaf:

Call my friends to share some wine
To share some laughs, and last goodbyes
My photographs of these years
Will make me laugh through the tears

What are the odds, what are the odds?
This ends and we don't meet again
What are the odds, What are the odds?
That I will miss your smile

Take awhile! Take awhile! Take care and
Fly away and see the world
Take awhile! Take awhile! Take time and
If you need rest, I'll keep your nest
Changeless

Let fondness be our souvenir
To keep it warm, we'll keep it near
Otherwise with no heart to recall...
A memory's just a memory after all
I will not leave this pulse alone
Though it may take the long way home
I will not wait until the end
For my applause for you my friend

What are the odds, what are the odds?
This ends and we don't meet again
What are the odds, what are the odds?
This ends and we won't meet again
What are the odds, What are the odds?
That I have missed your smile